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SENATOR EDWARD MARTIN

The Amazing Story of Mr Howe & Mr Hummel

ILLIAM F. HOWE and Abraham H. Hummel, partners in Howe and Hummel's Law Offices at 89, Centre-street, New York City, were beyond dispute the greatest criminal lawyers of

For 35 years they wore the legal advisers to the professional criminals of New York. They wore the classic shystors experts on every form of illogal practice their day. Between 1863, when IPY RICHARD H. ROVERE it was organised, and 1907,

when it was put out of business

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that there were none.

There was

not a single item of correspondence, not a single cheque, not a receipt, not a telegram relating to the case. They had not been destroyed; they had never existed,

Howe and Hummel hail no use for paper of any kind, except paper money. All their communication with ellents was by word of mouth, directly or by telephone, and by mes- senger.

by District Attorney William alias Western George, and his the procedure by which

Breach-of-promise blackmail was Travers Jerome, the firm of accomplices in the robbery of petty criminals had been com a Howe and Hummel speciality, and Howe and Hummel defended the Manhattan Savings Institu- mitted. After collecting a small Howe and Hummel affidavits alleg more than 1,000 people indicted tion in 1878.

fee from each man they obtained ing seduction under promise of mar- riage troubled the morning-after for murder or manslaughter. The two lawyers had, in addi- the release of the entire group, thoughin of playboys and stage- They had almost a monopoly tion, the business of every Oflen, when Howe, who did most struck business men for a quarter of on the rest of the criminal busi- freelance safecracker, forger made a particularly brilliant defence sald, struck the heart of anyone whe

of the firm's criminal trial work, a century.

"Deep terror," li was ness in New York in their day-arsonist,

mal, of a particularly guilty ellent, the found Howe and Hummel stationery When 74 randams were rounded. bucketshop proprietor whose firm printed the trint as a pamphlet in his morning mail."

with the world

confidence

compliments. of and Hummel ofices usually brought

Centre-street, directly across from bathed in perspiration,

No Papers

It cost anywhere from £1.000 to £2.000 ta redevin a Howe and Hum- mel affidavit; the heart balm was apilt Afty-fifty between the injured Jady and her attorneys,

Lawyers still alive who sented the victima

of this

repre-

black- of

up during a purity drive in 1884, business was worth having, and distributed it through the under- An Invitation to call at the Howe every one of them named Howe Howe and Hummel were the Howe and Hummel's Law Offices, 89, the recipient running at full speed, and Humtnel as counsel.

mouthpieces-if not, as was Mother Mandelbaum, the lead- often asserted,

the brains of Tombs Prizon." The partners oven ing fence of the age, paid Howe, organised crime in New York advertised the kind of results they and Hummel a retainer of £1,000 for more than 30 years.

got in their telegraphic address, a year to defend her and her It might be said that Howe which was Lenient, army of thieves

and Hummel were the classic The firm had the legal busi- shysters. Their hoaxing of ness of General Abe Greenthal's juries, their inspired quibbling, By HARRY W. FRANTZ Sheeny Mob, a nation-wide syn- and their skill in fabricating TNITED STATES Senator dicate of pickpockets; of Chester evidence are part of the folklore Edward Martin will be pre-McLaughlin's Valentine Gang of of the American Bar. Thoy sented to the Republican Na-forgers; and of the Whyos, on found loopholes large enough for Liona! Convention R8 the organisation of thugs and killers convicted murderers to walk "favourite son" of the state of that was perhaps the toughest through standing up." Pennsylvania, which has a pop of all the 19th century gangs. Intion of over 10,000,000 and

Charles O. Brockway, a coun- will have the second delegation terfelter

so adroit that at the Convention in point of For a time it appeared probable

numbers.

votes on the Pennsylvania delegation on the first balint, but the fact that both Harold Stassen and Governor

the

Loopholes

money was ever kept in the mail estimate that the number Howe and Hummel offices. This. men shaken down by Hummel be- was probably a sound business policy tween 1885 and 1905 must have been in view of the class of people who well up in the hundreds.

Hummel was the most systematic frequented. the place. Numbering so many gifted forgers amon their of blackmallers. He did not sit idly ellents the partners would not accept: by waiting for soiled doves to flv in cheques. Payment had to be made his office window. He was constant-

for the bushes

fresh in advance, and In strictly

1 beating Jegal

affidavit copy. tender.

At the close of each day, the two at Pontin's Res-

United States Treasury once had ONCE, in 1888, Howe produced attorneys met

a state of terror in New taurant in Franklin-street, and

Threats

E assigned two of his employees

The day's take was divided evenly to

unexploited

as scene

to withdraw an issue of its 100- that Martin would receive all the 73 dollar bills because they were Fork by invoking a technicality, empiled their pockets on the table. to go out along Broadway and the

from his, which, if it had been allowed by between the two. All of Howe and Rowery in search

seductions. These two became indistinguishable found it expedient to pay Howe the higher courts, would have Hummel's book-keeping was done au

wardrobe mistresses. and Hummel in genuine coin of set free not only the murderer Pontin's tablecloths. The firm kept familiar figures hackatage

he was defending, but every no account books and was shy on shifters and

of any sort.

They would make the acquaintance other first-degree murderer then method in this apparent lack of of young actresses and chorus girla

records awaiting execution and every method. defendant then awaiting for first degree murder.

Thomas Dewey made

a superior the realm. showing in the stale primary election indicates factional differences within Pennsylvania and some uncertainty to the ultimate intentions of the na to Pennsylvania politicians.

Martin

has not waged an active campaign for the presidency. He recommended to favourable national attention by 28 Pennsyl-

WIS

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vania members of the House ΟΙ Representatives. He replied non- committally that he

not a candidate but ambitious "to have the Republican Party go into the 1948 Presidential campaign united under the leadership of a candidate sirong in patriotism, effective in adminis- tration and steadfast in courage to assure the United States its rightful place in the world."

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BOLENT

WAY

LOWERT GILBERT PENDLETON

States Senate in 1940.

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and explain to them how last vent's Infatuation could be converted into next year's fur conts.

Thoy, had the girls rummaging for old way antique dealers tearing up their

round' in, their memories

When District Attorney Investigating the firm's part in the IT was Howe and Hummel who

Scandal In collected £14,000-said to be On another occasion Hummel Dodge-Morse divorce

reductions Imprisonment of Abe Hummel and the largest fee paid any criminal almost depopulated the city 1005, the case which resulted in the sub- lawyers before prohibition prison on Blackwell's Island by the dissolution from George Leonidas Leslie, discovering a technical error in poenaed the firm's records, he found

Political Newsfront

of the firm,

By W. J. BROWN, MP-

Peace in Palestine

TMNDER the

-at all

of pressure

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Costs

Progress towards European unity,

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les in search of old glassware and ladderback chairs. When a girl enme ncross with a likely story she was escorted down-town to Hummel. who got the details from her and set them down in affidavit form.

The existence of this affidavit would then be made known to the man named in it, and he was given his choice of breach of pro- mize, sult with wide publicity and with no details spared, or a quick settlement.

When the payment, always in cash, had

been handed over to him. Hum- met would fetch from his desk all copies of the affidavit and hand them to the victim's lawyer for identifica- tion. If for some morbid reason the client wanted the papers for his Ales, they were his for the asking. Most of the time, however, the client wanted nothing more than the per- manent destruction of the papers. and Hummel would oblige by tossing them into the fire.

It

was a matter of both principle and good business with Hummel to see to it that a man who had once been successfully blackmailed was may never again troubled by the same

Of course, If the man was light- headed enough to be overcome by the charms of another demanding young woman, that was his own look-out, and Hummel would see to it that the girl's interests were well absolute represented. But as far as he

concerned, it was a matter of a single bill for a single seduction.

A remote possibility of Martin's selection as Vice Presidential nominee has not been eliminated, however, because of the powerful influence of Pennsylvania in national politics, and the determination of

His re-entry will strengthen Pennsylvania Republicans to restore

the the prospects of Marshall aid, the Left, and its illusions against the state of Pennsylvania to the

of Czecho-Slovakia, the defeat of Republican column next December. kaleidoscope of politics revolves world-wide reaction to the crime more sober realism of Cripps. Although Pennsylvania was always the more rapidly as time gocs the Communists In Italy-all these had induced lo Stalin, not indeed regarded as "Republican territory" after the war between the states in

a change of heart, but a change of WE live in a fool's paradise. But

the fucts are inexorable. the 1860's, it gave a

In foreign affairs the immediate strategy. Democratic

The adverse balance of payments plurality-to Franklin D. Roosevelt key-point is Palestine.

A "soft" treaty was made with is not diminishing- It is rising. After the decision to quit Pales- in 1930, 1940 and 1944.

Finland. to avoid driving Scan- Last month's figures show that it Senator Martin's claim to national line which gave an effective andinavia into the Western bloc.

is running now at £650 millions a to Jewish propaganda, es- Ewer recognition grew out of his wartimo

"Elections" were staged in Czecho-

millions higher year-£50 service as Governor of Pennsylvania, pecially in the U.S.A., that Britain

before. followed by his election to United would never relinquish her hold Slovakia, with a view to providing

This means further inroads into and would play off Jew and Arab some sort of popular sanction, or fully the appearance of It, to what had

now scanty store of gold. Hls military service over a period in order to slay there in prepetung been done there.

contrived to create

Within a month or two our reserves "Peace" feclers had been thrown will have fallen below the figure of 44 years included the Spanish-mwe have now

the Impression that, having got out

in Stalin's feller to Wallace. hitherto held to be the American war, the Philippine Insur- ourselves, we mean Palestine torts, That letter

no more was rection, the Mexican border cam-main predominantly in, Arab hands,

minimum on which the system could similar leiters than a dozen of 1910,

War I and to control it indirectly through interviews which Stalin has given pnign

World

function. and World War II. As major them.

when conditions necessitated a tem- general he was commander DI

porary retreat. Pennsylvania's

28th

(Keystone) Division, which he trained for ser vlce overseas. But he was retired for age early in the war. He wears

decorations many

including Distinguished Service Cross

NATIONAL DEFENCE He

elected Governor of Pennsylvania in 1942. Under his direction the immense Industrial and agricultural potential of Pennsyl-if vonia was mobilised for national defence, and the state produced fabulous quantities of steel, coal, munitions of war and food products,

Ar Senator from

is utterly, urgently vital from Pennsylvania Martin had an active part in the "Stop Communism' efforts by Con- When a Communist group of war veterans called to ask legislative favours he made to them a widely publicised address;

gress,

was

the

While the Americans wore pininly supporting the Jews, we have given the clear impression that we were behind the Arabs.

∙Had the truce not come in Pales- line. had the fighting continued, Palestine would have presented the spectacle of something like a wor between America and Britain, fought at second hand, through agents.

And that may yet be the position

the truce breaks down.

ANGLO-AMERICAN tension has high levels of reached new

The Americans, on whose strain. charity. we survive, and who are consclous of their new position as the greatest Power in the world. resent our taking a line different

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CITALIN only recells the better to

advance.

But for the moment he has recoiled,

Anglo-American antagoniam might restore Stalin's position. It might casily lead to defections from the European coalition which is slowly being built up.

Then the Russian advance would be swiftly resumed.

At all costs, and at whatever sacrifice to any body's susceptibilities, there must be a settlement in Palestine,

This

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T home, all things are dominated old saying has it that a statesmon

by electoral manoeuvring.

Then, unless we use American ald for current consumption Instead of capital re-equipment-and if we do, we should postpone the crisis only at the expense of increasing lis severity later-fresh cuts will have austerities 10 be imposed, fresh endured.

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Little Talk

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NATURALLY, It sometimes occur- that it would be sound economy to make an old Investment pay off a second time if that were possible. Thev

start woukt

proceedings through another lawyer,

end to the brighter young women

MEANTIME, all sorts of factors again he straightened things out for

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"She listens to me dictate an affl-

As soon as Hummel heard that one of his victims was being troubled combine to increase the bedevil-the victim in short order. Hummel Dalton, at ence expinined to a group of friends ment of the situation.

the how he managed thla. Scarborough, softened down

of Cripps, and

I harsh warnings

"Before

hand over her share," denied that it was the Government's Hummel sald, "the girl and I have intention to freeze wages.

a little talk," This has increased the natural tendency for each trade union to davit saying that she has deceived find reasons why it should not be me, as her attorney, into believing rentrained by the White Paper from that a criminal conversation (one of

wages Increases. seeking

the period's legal euphemisms for an And the Trades Union Congress act of adultery) had taken place, that adjourns with nothing done on the in fact nothing at all between her question of restrictive practices in and the man involved over took Industry, which the Government had place, that she was thoroughly re- pentant over her conduct in the case, invited it to consider.

A year ago, Cripps gave warning and that but for the fact that the fear

our money had already been spent sho was involved in that what faithful to American ideals and ac- the threat of Russia. America was that the need for winning the next handling of the postwar situation in would wish to return it.

"She signs ilds and I give her the cept the teachings of Communism. willing to help Europe. towards election dictates a given line of Britain was not only our economic

Whenever they start up There is place for those of you who

Mr economic recovery, for in that re- policy. Bevan has made it survival, but the survival of bur money.

something a second time I just call prefer to live under Communism. Icovery lay the best hope of prevent- clear that he rejects Mr Morrison's whole democratic way of life,

Now Mr Dalton rejolas

It sounded a little alarmist then. them in and read them the affidavit. suggest that you go there and stay ing a further spread of Commu- approach. there."

niem.

the Cabinet.

It becomes obvious now.

"I respect the veteran and all that his uniform stands for, but when you came here representing the Communist Party, you have no right to claim the respect and treatment duo to voterans. No one can be

NANCY

Whatta Mesh!

OH, NANCY ---YER AUNT FRITZŁWAS

CALLIN' YA

from theirs.

is a man who thinks of the next Unless tension in resolved by generation; a pollucian is a man settlement in Palestine, the whole who

thinics

of the next General conception underlying the relations Election. between America and Europe may

We are in the hands of politicians, break down.

not statesmen. Europe and America allko

Mr Morrison has made it clear

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